Elevator at YSU repaired, back in service

Staff report

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An elevator in a Youngstown State University dormitory that stranded two students Monday was repaired and back in service Tuesday afternoon.

About 4:30 p.m. Monday, two YSU students were trapped inside the elevator in Kilcawley House for about 30 minutes.

The students weren’t injured, and after they were freed from the elevator, it was shut down.

Ron Cole, a YSU spokesman, said the part that malfunctioned has been replaced and the elevator returned to service.

It’s the same elevator that in September 2010 suddenly dropped from the fourth floor to the basement with 13 students inside causing minor injuries.

Cole said all elevators on campus are inspected twice a year by the state. They also are maintained and inspected on a monthy basis by the university’s elevator service company, ThyssenKrupp.

An independent consultant contracted by the university to evaluate campus elevators has said that the Kilcawley House elevator is in proper operating condition, Cole said.